Improvement in guide for sewing-machine



H. VAN VLEAR.

Sewing-Machine Guide.

Patented Feb. 2, 1869.

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WILLIAM H. VAN. VLEAR, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM E. GREENE, OF SAME PLACE.

INLPROVEMENT IN GUIDE FOR SEWING-MA GHINE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may -00 nee rm Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H.VAN VLEAR, of the city of Stockton, county of San Joaquin, and State of California, have invented a new and improved Guide, to be used with the presser-foot, for Sewing-Ma- .chines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in providing the guide (6 with a clasp or turn, a, Figure 1, at the toe, and two flanges b, fig. 1, projecting upward, one

from either side, inclining slightly toward each other,

The guide may be made of a single piece of brass, silver, or other metal plate, of a thickness to suit the character of ithe material to be sewed, or it may be constructed of two pieces.

\Ihen made of one piece, the plate being out in proper shape, the guide proper, Figures 1 and 2, is pressed out frorn the plate, and the flanges b, fig. 1, turned up by means of dies, constructed for the purpose.

\Vhen made of two pieces, the guide a, being a piece of plate of desired size, shape, and thicknes, is brazed upon a thin plate, properly cut, and provided with a clasp and flanges in the manner and form above described.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, is-

The guide a, provided with the toe a and the springflanges b b, as and for the purpose described Stockton, California, October 7 1867.

W. H. VAN VLEAR.

Witnesses W. E. GREENE, ROBERT BAX'IER. 

